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Wisconsin Still Making More Milk With Less Cows
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 07/22/2016

Wisconsin dairy farmers are now going on their 26th consecutive month of seeing monthly increases in milk production compared to year-ago levels. According to the USDA's monthly milk production report, the Dairy State produced 2.54 billion pounds of milk last month, up 3.8 percent from June 2015, but lower than May's 2.64 billion pounds (which had one more day on the calendar).

Nationally, 16.7 billion pounds of milk was produced in the 23 major dairy states, which was up 1.2 percent higher than in 2015, but less than the previous month's 17.5 billion.

California continues to have the highest total production with about 3.36 billion pounds, despite being one of just five states with lower annual output. South Dakota once again had the greatest increase in year-to-year output as that state produced 210 million pounds of milk in June, up 6.6 percent from the same month last year.

Meanwhile, the number of milk cows on farms in the 23 major states was 8.65 million head, 17,000 head more than June 2015, and 3,000 head grater than May 2016. The average number of milk cows on Wisconsin farms for the month was 1.27 million head, about 2,000 less than last year and 1,000 below May 2015. But production per cow averaged 1,990 pounds, up 75 pounds from a year ago.


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